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1 month ago | farmandlivestockdirectory.com | Michael Rosmann |Country Lifestyle

Although farmers’ lives vary greatly around the world, all farmers share a basic human drive that I call the agrarian imperative: producing necessities for life, mainly food, clothing, shelter, and renewable fuels. A 70-year-old Illinois farmer told me recently at a birthday party for a mutual friend that my agrarian imperative theory validated his choice to farm more than anything else he has learned from reading Farm and Ranch Life columns for thirteen years.

Dec 3, 2024 | farmandlivestockdirectory.com | Michael Rosmann |Country Lifestyle

Most people aren’t sure what to believe in the media these days. What is fake news to one person is confirmation to another person that what he or she thinks about the subject is correct. How do people arrive at very different conclusions from the same information? Let’s take a look at what behavioral scientists have to say about this phenomenon. I reviewed a November 2017 column I wrote and updated my references for this article.